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The TARDIS doors opened and the Doctor tackled Athena inside just in time for the laser to hit the shut TARDIS door.
"You okay?" He was still on top of her.
"Yeah, despite the oncoming headache, I'm fine. You?"
"Yeah…uhm…yeah." He couldn't keep his smile hidden. He felt the urge to kiss her again. To feel her lips on his. Then he remembered she wanted none of that, none of him. Just friends. He pushed himself off of her and ran over to the console and sent them into the Time Vortex.
"We can't just leave!" Athena shouted as she got up from the ground. She ran over to the Doctor and tried to pull him away from the controls, "we have to help! We have to help them! They destroyed your planet, imagine what they'll do here!"
The Doctor turned to her and gave her his signature Oncoming Storm glare. "Last time I saw the Daleks I lost so many people."
"Doctor…you can't…"
"Donna. I lost Donna because of them. My best friend. I lost Rose. Twice. Everybody I've loved. I am not going to—" he cut himself off.
"Going to what, Doctor?"
He turned away from Athena and stared at the console, "It was aiming straight for you." Athena glared at his back. "I'm not going to lose you too."
"You can't change your mind like this! You said we were going to fight them, what happened to that?"
"I'm entitled to change my mind." He snapped back.
"You've never changed your mind as long as I've known you."
He turned back around and marched up to her and looked down at her. "I changed my mind about you." His look turned into a glare, as if he was trying to tell her he was not going back. Despite his anger and fear, he could still feel the warmness that came from his chest when he looked at her.
Athena's expression softened. The Doctor turned his back to her and focused on the controls. They stood in silence for a few moments.
"If you don't take us back there so we can help then you can take me back to London." The Doctor turned to face her, tears welling up in his eyes.
"But you could die."
"I don't care."
"I can't go on without you."
"Take us back, Doctor."
"But they'll kill us. You."
"How many times have you seen them?" The Doctor remained silent. "You always survive. You said yourself we could beat them. That it would be hard but we could do it." Athena continued to stare at him. "Please." The Doctor studied her face. "Only because you say so, Athena." The Doctor set the coordinates back for Yorwe.
They landed about five minutes later. Athena went to open the TARDIS doors but the Doctor pulled her away and went ahead. He opened the doors and looked around. They landed on the field about two hundred meters from the Dalek's ship.
Athena stood on the tips of her toes to look over the Doctor's shoulder. She gazed up at the ship. Despite it being a decent distance away, it still towered over them. "Is your ship as big on the inside as their's is on the outside?" The Doctor shot her an offended look. "I'll have you know that my TARDIS—"
"Yeah yeah, just saying, they have guns."
The Doctor pushed his back into Athena, getting her to move backwards, as he shut the door. Despite the dire situation, the small amount of contact made the Doctor more nervous than the Dalek's ship just outside his TARDIS doors.
The Doctor took a deep breath, just about to say something to distract Athena from his sudden nervousness when they heard a metallic voice outside.
"The TARDIS has been located!"
"Yeah, wasn't exactly smart of me landing right by the ship…" the Doctor let that sentence roll off his tongue as he looked around the console room. He walked back up to the control panel and Athena followed. He focused back on Athena, "oops."
The metallic voice filled the air again. "Activate transport!"
The TARDIS lurched, causing the Doctor to fall onto the control panel and Athena to fall onto her back.
"Doctor, what's happening?" Athena shouted over the cacophony of metal crashing against itself.
"The Daleks are transporting us to their ship!"
"How do we get out of this?" Athena had managed to get herself upright and was now clinging onto the jumpseat.
"We don't." The Doctor sighed. "We just have to survive." He let out a small, sad smile and looked back at Athena. "I won't let them hurt you."
"Don't make promises you can't keep, Doctor."
The Doctor responded with a nod and the TARDIS landed with a thud. Both Athena and the Doctor fell to the floor, the Doctor hitting his head on the control panel as he fell. This knocked him unconscious.
"Really?" Athena made her way over to the Doctor's unconscious form. "Really? Great, wonderful Time Lord biology and you still conk out from a bump to the head! Unbelievable…" Athena sat the Doctor up against the control panel. "Doctor?" She lightly patted his face, trying to get him to wake up. "Doctor…come on, I need you." She slapped him across the face and he fell over. Athena leaned over and put her fingers on his pulse point. She could feel his hearts beating, he was still with her.
The metallic voice filled the air again, "The Doctor and the female will exit the TARDIS!" Athena looked towards the TARDIS doors and then back down to the Doctor. "Come on, wake up!" She shook him and his head jerked back and forth with little resistance.
"Exit now!" The metallic voice sounded again.
"Okay!" Athena shouted. "Okay…" she hooked her hands underneath the Doctor's armpits and dragged him to the TARDIS door. "I am so sorry about this, Doctor." She fluffed up his hair a little bit, opened the door, and used her foot to keep it open as she pulled the Doctor onto the floor of the Dalek ship. She stepped over his body to block him from the Daleks.
"The Doctor is unconscious. Explain. Explain!" The lights on top of the Dalek heads, at least Athena thought they were heads, lit up with each word. She laughed at the sight of the Daleks, inwardly at least. She was fighting glorified salt and pepper shakers. "Explain!" The harsh voice jolted her back to attention.
"He fell."
"The Doctor does not simply lose consciousness."
"Well he hasn't been sleeping recently so it's not too surprising." She lied. She had no idea how much the Doctor needed to sleep but he knew he was sleeping less than her so she made assumptions.
"Time Lords only need 4 hours of sleep for ever 72 hours! He is plenty rested."
"Know your enemy, huh?" Athena said under her breath.
She heard a slight buzzing noise coming from behind her. It sounded like the Doctor's screwdriver. She assumed it was the Dalek ship, the Doctor was out cold.
"What is that noise?" the Dalek shouted at Athena.
"It's your ship, isn't it?" she asked.
"This is not a Dalek instrument! Nor a Tristorian!" He shouted at no one in particular. Then the frequency of the buzzing went up and the lights went out. "Electricity is compromised! Electricity is compromised!" The Daleks in the room started shouting at each other and moving around to try to fix the problem. Athena laughed to herself. Then she heard the lock on the TARDIS click into place, locking her out. She was no longer safe.
Well that's what she thought, until a cool hand found it's way into her's. "Run." The Doctor whispered, a little too close to her ear. "And follow me." He pulled her into a nearby corridor and away from the Daleks.
The Doctor felt blessed by his advanced Time Lord biology once again. Luckily for him and Athena, he could see in the dark almost just as well as he could see during the day. He led Athena down the corridor at a brisk pace. Then the lights turned back on. "Run, Athena!" He let go of her hand and started sprinting. Athena stayed by his side as the two of them ran. The Doctor then skidded to a halt and Athena nearly ran into him. He sonicked open a door and pushed Athena inside of what appeared to be a metal shop.
"Just our luck, yeah?" The Doctor grinned as he sonicked the lock shut and then pushed a table up against the door. Athena stared at him, baffled.
"You were never unconscious, were you?"
"Nope!" The Doctor exclaimed, popping the 'p', as he used his superhuman strength to pick up another table and put it on top of the one blocking the door.
"You let me face those Daleks on my own."
"Yep!" He turned to face Athena, "that should keep them out for a little bit. This room is strengthened in the walls to keep their invaders out. I knew it was around here somewhere, just got lucky." He let a chesire grin spread across his face. It didn't take long before Athena slapped it off of him. "What did I do?"
"You left me, defenseless!" She shouted at him.
"I was there, you were never truly defenseless." He tried to laugh her anger off.
"I have never gone up against Daleks before! What if something happened, you weren't quick enough?" She yelled back.
"You see why I wanted to leave now?" The Doctor glared at her. "You see now? Yeah, go save some people. It's always a wonderful feeling. But you have to pick your battles, Athena. This was one I was willing to run from. Sure, I would've hated myself even more for it but it would've meant you were safe."
Athena stared at him, dumbfounded. She didn't have anything of importance to say in response. "You could've warned me."
"Nah…" the Doctor started in his grandiose way, "you fluffed my hair." He grinned maniacally back at her, "I wasn't going to miss the possibility of something like that."
"Yeah, well at least I got some slaps in too." Athena slapped him across the face again. "Just like that one."
The Doctor stared at her while rubbing his cheek, "Blimey…just trying to have a bit of fun while running face first into certain doom." Athena sighed and hugged him. She may have been hugging him a bit too tight for his liking but he brought his hand down from his face and wrapped his overcoat around her, enveloping her in his embrace. "This is nice…" he said in a daze. He rest his cheek on the top of her head and breathed in the smell of her shampoo. He got a tinge of salt, she was crying. He broke away and crouched down so he was eye level with her.
"What's wrong, sweetheart?" He wiped away a tear threatening to fall.
"Don't scare me like that again."
A smile crept across the Doctor's face. "Okay. I'll tell you next time I'm about to fake my unconsciousness." He let out a small laugh and she joined in. The Doctor had been enjoying the moment too much and forgot where they were. He stiffened back up and scanned the room, not letting go of Athena's shoulders just yet.
"We don't have much time. I need to wire into their ship, lock their systems, and set the entire ship to backfire, short out, and, ultimately, catch fire." He let out a bit of a giddy laugh. He slightly recoiled from himself and focused his attention above Athena's head, shocked he would laugh at the thought of killing. Then he remembered where he was standing; in a stolen ship piloted by Daleks. He forgave himself and looked back at Athena.
"You can do that?"
The Doctor looked back down at her, "I'm the Doctor, I can do anything." He gave her his best smile before pulling away from her and running to the circuit breaker on the opposite wall. He opened it up and flipped every switch the opposite way. Then he unscrewed the panel from the wall, making sure to keep everything in tact.
"The Doctor can do anything. Except be modest."
The Doctor looked over his shoulder, "Hey, that was uncalled for!" Athena laughed at him. "Make yourself useful, human, and get me a pair of wire strippers."
"Oh, human, that's a good one."
"Hurry up!"
"Here you are, Time Lord." She handed him the wire strippers with the sauciest look she could muster. He smirked down at her and peeled the rubber back from the wires leading up to the circuit board. Athena stood on her tip toes and watched him work. "Oh…I see what you're doing. Clever boy." She patted him on the back.
"Just basic circuitry. At least year ten for you and I know you didn't get that far. No offense."
"None taken. Jeremy taught me everything he knew. He probably did loads better than a school could."
"He was smart, your brother."
"Yeah he was. Got a job as a construction worker, actually. So I know exactly what you're doing."
"What am I doing then?" The Doctor asked as he stripped the remaining wires.
"You're going to strip the wires connecting to the circuit breaker and then you're going to get to the basic electrical circuits in the table saw over there, cross the two up, plug in the table saw, turn it on, then you've got an electrical fire wired up to the entire ship."
"I knew I kept you for a reason." The Doctor smiled at Athena before putting on a poker face. "I was going to use the jigsaw over here, wouldn't have to move it as far."
"Oh, details." Athena laughed at him before realization dawned on her face. "Why are there power tools on a Dalek ship?"
"This isn't a native Dalek ship."
"Explain to the simple human."
The Doctor let out a sarcastic laugh. "Very funny…the Daleks raided a small planet called Trinostora around, oh…200 or so years ago. During the Time War. They slaughtered the native population and took their ships and resources. The native population of Trinostora was somewhat humanoid. Not really, but they had arms and fingers, so they were humanoid in that respect."
"So, you knew these were the Daleks because…"
"Because any Trinostorian ship that is flying is being flown by Daleks. Granted, they have made some adjustments in order to feel as though the ships were worthy, but they were also desperate during the Time War. No matter how superior, you take whatever supplies you can get." The Doctor stripped the last wire, "Done!"
A metallic voice sounded through the room again, "The Doctor is inside!"
The Doctor spun on his heel towards Athena. "You need to hide."
"But they'll kill you."
"I'll talk, I'm good at the talking thing. You need to hide. You know what I was doing, yeah?"
"Yeah but…"
"No buts. Take my screwdriver." The Doctor handed Athena his sonic screwdriver. "The settings are already synced to take apart the jigsaw over there." Athena rolled her eyes, "Yes, the jigsaw, get over it. Now, I need you to hide in the cupboards, okay?"
"But Doctor…"
"Please." Athena nodded her compliance. "There's a good girl." The Doctor opened up the cupboard door, took Athena's hand and helped her climb in. "Just remain quiet, okay? They're going to break in any second now." The Doctor kissed her hand before giving it back to her. "Wait thirty seconds after we've gone to come out and keep working. Be sure to remain quiet. I'll try to get it so that all the Daleks are in one room, okay? This is a small ship, there can't be many."
"It's a huge ship."
"A workroom this small? This is one of the Tristorians' smaller ships. The Daleks probably didn't put many soldiers on board." The Doctor looked down at her, "I'm sorry." The Doctor shut the door to the cupboard and faced the door barricaded with tables.
Athena sat in the cupboard under the workbench, trying her best not to breathe. She could hear the Daleks making their way into the workroom. It wasn't long until she heard the tables blasted from against the door and into the wall opposite.
"Ah…so we meet again. Hello." The Doctor started.
"Where is the female?" The same metallic voice filled the air.
"Oh, my female?" Athena did her best not to scoff at his statement. "I lost her. We got separated in the dark. Hate it when that happens, don't you?"
"Where is she?"
"Send someone to look for her. Or better yet…you caught me. Don't exterminate me, put your lasers down. Why don't you torture me? You said you wanted revenge. Would an extermination really be enough for you? Come on, take your revenge on me. I deserve it. I made your ships burn in the Medusa Cascade. I made sure I could destroy as many of your ships as I could during the Time War. Take me to your commander, let him decide. I'm sure he'd agree with me. There's probably some Tristorian weapons on this ship to use against me. Come on, Dalek. Have a bit of fun, even you should know what fun means." Athena got very scared for the Doctor. What if the Daleks decided to exterminate him anyways? He was the last Time Lord, that would mean the end to their enemy.
There was a heavy silence sitting in the room. The Daleks, Athena figured she heard at least two Dalek motors, moved into the room and, she assumed, towards the Doctor.
"Come on…" the Doctor stretched out his arms and spun around. "Wouldn't it be more fun?" He cocked an eyebrow and smiled. "I know I'd have more fun if I was in your position."
The metallic voice rang through the room again. "Take the Doctor to the holding room!"
"Allons-y." the Doctor responded, an air of triumph in his voice.